Sylt (Pic Spam)
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selenakUsuallly the APs and self spend this week in the Alps, but this year, due to my USian obligations, we couldn't do that, so we went to the Northern sea on short notice; to be more precise, to the island Sylt, where I spent some glorious childhood holidays due to the fact a friend of my parents used to lend us her flat for six Pentecost holidays in a row when I was a kid. But we hadn't been there in autumn, so this was new, and great fun. It also means for gratitious photography.
You get to Sylt either by ferry from Denmark, or from Germany via train on the Hindenburg damm. (Yes, it's still called that. Periodically there are attempts to rename it which fail.) While you're on the train, you see views like this:
In Kampen, there's a slightly higher dune offering a very nice panoramic view of the island from the middle to all sides. Like these:
At this point in September, school holidays are over (which is why we were never here when I was a child), and it's mostly too cold to bathe, but some hardcore people still do, and also it's very enjoyable to take long walks on the beach(es). Here are the hardcore bath guests:
Sylt may feel like it's been settled only for a few hundred years at first, but it actually boasts of some neolithic graves, like this one:
This is my daily view at sunrise. (The shape of the house is typical for this area of Germany.)
A typical Sylt landscape as seen en route to the beach:
And when you reach the beach, which due to it being not high season anymore is mostly empty, you get treated to this:
Sylt doesn't have white cliffs, but it does have some red(dish) ones:
And some animals. Like the beach swallow:
Jellyfish:
And, imported, Belted Galloways cattle. (I asked, because I had never seen this precise shape of black and white before.)
All of the small towns on the island have their small harbors (this one is of Rantum):
The two neigboring islands are called Amrum and Föhr. You can get quickly by boat to either. We went to Amrum yesterday, and this is the south coast of Sylt seen from the ship to Amrum:
Sylt on one side, Amrum on the other:
Amrum is smaller than Sylt and is basically all beach, nearly all the time.
That Amrum beach is its own Unesco heritage. And truly gigantic. I mean.
Alas the weather has changed, and tomorrow it will rain, too, after which I'll be gone from the island and back to work in Southern Bavaria, so I leave you with a Sylt sunset on the beach:
You get to Sylt either by ferry from Denmark, or from Germany via train on the Hindenburg damm. (Yes, it's still called that. Periodically there are attempts to rename it which fail.) While you're on the train, you see views like this:
In Kampen, there's a slightly higher dune offering a very nice panoramic view of the island from the middle to all sides. Like these:
At this point in September, school holidays are over (which is why we were never here when I was a child), and it's mostly too cold to bathe, but some hardcore people still do, and also it's very enjoyable to take long walks on the beach(es). Here are the hardcore bath guests:
Sylt may feel like it's been settled only for a few hundred years at first, but it actually boasts of some neolithic graves, like this one:
This is my daily view at sunrise. (The shape of the house is typical for this area of Germany.)
A typical Sylt landscape as seen en route to the beach:
And when you reach the beach, which due to it being not high season anymore is mostly empty, you get treated to this:
Sylt doesn't have white cliffs, but it does have some red(dish) ones:
And some animals. Like the beach swallow:
Jellyfish:
And, imported, Belted Galloways cattle. (I asked, because I had never seen this precise shape of black and white before.)
All of the small towns on the island have their small harbors (this one is of Rantum):
The two neigboring islands are called Amrum and Föhr. You can get quickly by boat to either. We went to Amrum yesterday, and this is the south coast of Sylt seen from the ship to Amrum:
Sylt on one side, Amrum on the other:
Amrum is smaller than Sylt and is basically all beach, nearly all the time.
That Amrum beach is its own Unesco heritage. And truly gigantic. I mean.
Alas the weather has changed, and tomorrow it will rain, too, after which I'll be gone from the island and back to work in Southern Bavaria, so I leave you with a Sylt sunset on the beach:
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Date: 2022-09-26 06:22 pm (UTC)Because I went on childhood holidays to the south-west of Scotland, where my family name is well-represented, it follows that for reasons of both ancestral piety and nostalgia I need to let loose my inner pedant and point out that the cattle are Belted Galloways, not Galways.
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